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GRAVEYARD

Notice of an itinerary change—

Well, shucks! You died. This might be a familiar experience for you, maybe not. Either way, you're probably feeling distinctly less dead now, with any injuries you previously obtained now healed. Grogginess still clouds your mind, but in a way that's reminiscent of waking up rather than anything nefarious.

... Not too unlike when you first arrived here, actually. Namely, because you wake up in what looks to be an airport terminal. Again! It's not quite the same as the one you were in before, but you're not free of airports yet, it seems. To be specific, you're in the baggage claim area, in the most literal sense: lying in an open suitcase on the carousel, going round and around (or, if you were unlucky, you might've tumbled out of the suitcase as it slid down onto the conveyor belt). You might want to hop off at some point.

If you're worried about your belongings, you can find them either on your person or in another suitcase chugging along on the belt. Once you retrieve everything, there's a new area to explore. Plus, reunions to be had with those who died before you, or with the four Hosts you haven't seen since the first week. And should you be worried about the living side, there are various screens around the terminal, allowing you to still watch what's going on over there.

► GRAVEYARD RUNDOWN

You are able to see the living (and their public network posts).
Weekly effects are still active.
Any personal items you didn't give away before your death are with you in the graveyard.
You can still use your curse items on the living, with the usual caveats of avoiding OOC inconvenience (e.g. no effects that would last into Thursday night).
The graveyard has its own set of NPCs (Maestro, Bora, Libeccio, Scirocco). You are no longer able to contact the living side's NPCs via audiences, but you can talk to the other four once again.
If you get injured and would like to be healed (within reason), the graveyard NPCs can heal to varying degrees, so feel free to handwave tapping them until you got one who could help you.
You may handwave the NPCs explaining the basics to you: you're alive again, but you're unable to regroup with the "living" side due to lacking a mode of transportation to the airport terminal where they are, and a barrier is blocking people from leaving the old-fashioned way. Trying to book a ride is a work in progress for the entire graveyard.
As of Week 4, the memshare effect from Week 3 remains.

QUICKLINKS

NAVIGATION; (FULL NAV)

INFO

PLAYER STATUSES IC PROFILES MURDER PROPOSALS CYOA SIGN-UPS

SETTING

NPC AUDIENCES LOCATIONS ROOMING CURFEW

REPORTING

PC TURN-IN MOD REPORTING EVENT TURN-IN VOTING

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Day: Sunday
Recipient: Ace
Message Content:

Excellent work it is exactly what we meant. Except for the part where you also bombed us, that was rude. Aren’t we a team? And now my feathers will have glitter in them for the next decade at least …

Please do send whatever notes you are able, we haven’t heard anything about the symbols or the key - though we were able to observe what happened when you entered the room. Hm. Not sure how to feel about that. Well. More to process in the coming week. Speaking of, we should be able to speak more coherently more frequently. Send as many pictures as you like, I’ll try and send some in return. Maybe Libeccio knows how to use a “printer.” Send more pictures of Lady, and tell her that I’m only petting Frumpkin because she is not here, and it doesn’t really mean anything. I wouldn’t do anything weird with another man’s familiar anyway.

I miss being able to speak as well. It’s difficult like this, sometimes. A bit like the Circle, being locked away from everyone else and made to watch the world go by. But at least there’s a way out on the horizon.

- Anders

Day: Sunday
Recipient: Strohl
Message Content:

You aren’t a burden and hearing your worries isn’t a weight on me. I’d rather hear the truth than have you pretending everything is fine, Strohl, even if it clearly isn’t. The truth is that real justice in situations like this is near impossible to begin with - and we are all perhaps equally complicit in the end. We can only hope that by surviving long enough, we can enact something more true and real in the end, when this is over. Of course I second guess myself. I am of two minds am I not? It is Justice who has convictions and certainty, but I am also still partially human.

That said, if I have any insight from this side, it’s that sometimes certain assumptions seem to be a given when perhaps they shouldn’t be. For example, maybe the CORN has a POINT you ninnies.

However I think you’re reading too much into the order form, everyone just really wanted merch and I didn’t want to give mine away because it’s MINE so I asked for more. And I believe you asked about injuries: I am fine, and there’s forms of healing here available. Most of the damage wasn’t physical for me anyway, apart from a few stray staples. Boothill’s shooting at me only hits on occasion as well.

My last piece of advice is that maybe thinking about a certain “frame of mind” could help you. It could point you somewhere you didn’t think to look. I understand the risks, but my friend Varric used to love a red herring in his stories.

- Anders

Day: Sunday
Recipient: Rupert
Message Content:

I’m afraid everything you’ve said is a complete mystery to me. What pictures on Fridays? Let me know if there’s anything else you all get - I believe we might be a bit out of the loop on things.

- Anders

Day: Sunday
Recipient: Haru
Message Content:

HARUKA

I KNOW WHAT A VEHICLE IS AND HAVE LEARNED OF MANY OF THEM INCLUDING A CAR A BUSS AND A TRAIN I DO NOT CARE FOR THEM IT IS MY OBSURVA OPSORB observation THEY OFTEN CRASH AND THE MOSHUN motion OF THEM MAKES THE BODY ILL

DEATH IS OFTEN AN IN ESCAPE ABLE CONSEQUENCE OF THE PURSEIT PORSUIT it is pursuit OF JUSTICE AND IS ACCEPTABLE HOWEVER THOSE WHO SUFFER ARE ALSO IN TITLED TO THEIR OWN JUSTICE

THE CORN IS PURPOSEFUL TAKE HEED OF ITS MESSAGE AND USE ITS WISDOM GOING FORTH

THOSE DRIVEN TO VIOLANCE violence BY DECREE OF THE AUDITORS ARE TO BE PITIED. THEIR ACTIONS CAUSE PAIN BEYOND THE FIRST STRIKE ALONE BUT LIKE THE MAGE WHO LASHES OUT AT HIS FELLOW MAGE, THE BLAME MUST ALSO BE LAID AT THE FET feet OF THE ONE WHO HAS DRIVEN HIM TO THIS POINT THROUGH CONTROL. IF THERE IS JUSTICE TO BE FOUND IN THE TRIAL IT IS TO HONOR THOSE FALLEN WITH OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH. WE SHOULD NOT HIDE FROM THE TRUTH, EVEN IF IT BRINGS US PAIN. THE AUDITORS MUST PAY. IF THEY LAY SLA its slaughter I’ll get ahead of this one SLAUGHTERED UNDER THE HOOVES OF VENGEANCE THEN WE MUST CAST OUR GAZE HIGHER TO WHOEVER GUARDS THE GATE OF OUR FREEDOM. JUSTICE IS NOTHING WITHOUT FREEDOM.

That’s all quite a lot but If you are asking me then I will say the same I believe for Rosamund: I have hurt others before without intending to. It will weigh on you - or them. The only way now is forward. Make having your life matter.

It’ll be alright.

Day: Sunday
Recipient: Alex
Message Content:

I should be able to write back with more coherency from now on, though no guarantees, but if you were so inclined to write more letters I think it’d be easier now. If you wanted to. Whatever strikes your fancy.

To address your questions first: we have access to healing, though I wasn’t really all that physically injured as much as mentally rattled and that’s mostly sorted itself out in the wash. One more horrifying trauma for the pile I suppose. Haha.

I did receive a note after the trip, and I am including it here, though I believe it is likely the same as the others received, and in light of the … reveal that happened earlier tonight, maybe not so relevant anymore? I don’t know. I suppose that’s for you all to figure out. Or us too. Send us more secret notes if you get them. We’re also forming a new combined team that we’re dubbing 🌞Nyahoo!!🍀- because our group deserves a team as well.

So. Jonas and the other one, huh?

Are you friends with Kaworu?

- Anders
Items Attached: A copy of this document

Day: Sunday
Recipient: Jonas
Message Content:

I understand, I’ll keep an eye out for Siffrin. I can imagine it’s quite difficult right now, but at least everyone’s pretty lively for being dead, so it’s rather difficult to mope about much. Unless you’re me, and very talented at it.

I hope things improve for you. I miss speaking with you. There’s a bar here that reminds me of the one in Heaven a bit, though it’s lonely without a bartender who’s always ready to hear everything.

Is this your artwork? You’re also getting a Griffin tattoo? It’s lovely. The Warden Commander was obsessed with Griffins. Big thing in the Wardens, even though they all died out ages ago. Lots of silver ones on flags and crests and shiny armor. Personally I was always a little disappointed they weren’t still around when I joined up, because you always hear the dramatic stories about Wardens flying into battle on a great big fuck-off griffin and it was all very romantic and dashing, meanwhile I mostly just ran around in the cold mud with my regular boots.

I don’t know about the eggs. Are you taking care of your egg babies? I think maybe the eggs are a lesson about how you all should maybe question authority more instead of believing every strange message that appears on your phone instantly.

- Anders

Day: Sunday
Recipient: Kaworu
Message Content:

Thank you for all the pictures of Lady. Please tell her that if I’m spending time with Frumpkin it’s only because I miss her and he’s clearly an inferior cat, but I’m a bit hard up at the moment.

I can see some of the difficulties you are having with teammates, and I’m quite sorry you’re treated that way. Manwo arrived safely and said some very kind things about you - so I’m glad she was able to look out for you. Meowsandry I’m sure is as well.

I understand feeling lost. It’s difficult to think of the future in a place like this, but do know that you have one. It’s not lost to us, and I refuse to let it be taken by Auditors who have no idea about anything we’ve fought for before. We’ll go home. Sooner, rather than later.

I should be able to write more frequently with less insanity now, though no promises - keep sending pictures, I like seeing them. I’ll try and send some through myself when I can.

- Anders

Day: Sunday
Recipient: Maya
Message Content:

I don’t know that I have more information than any of you at the moment, aside from perhaps a “frame of mind” that is differently adjusted. Perhaps you could think on that too, during the coming week - if not yourself, then someone else.

As for this “Carl” (weird way to spell that name) and the horse, I’m completely in the dark. What in the Maker’s name was any of that.

- Anders

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